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UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Kiev, 2003)
7. Environmental report |
Contents |
9. Consultation with environmental and health
authorities |
Article 8
Public participation
1. Each Party shall ensure early, timely and effective
opportunities for public participation, when all
options are open, in the strategic environmental
assessment of plans and programmes.
2. Each Party, using electronic media or other
appropriate means, shall ensure the timely public
availability of the draft plan or programme and
the environmental report.
3. Each Party shall ensure that the public concerned,
including relevant non-governmental organizations,
is identified for the purposes of paragraphs 1 and
4.
4. Each Party shall ensure that the public referred
to in paragraph 3 has the opportunity to express
its opinion on the draft plan or programme and the
environmental report within a reasonable time frame.
5. Each Party shall ensure that the detailed arrangements
for informing the public and consulting the public
concerned are determined and made publicly available.
For this purpose, each Party shall take into account
to the extent appropriate the elements listed in
annex V.